Sweden is Ok with Public Masturbation

Sweden is now "okay" with public masturbation. On June 6, a 65-year-old man took off his shorts at a beach near Stockholm and began masturbating in the ocean. The man was charged with sexual assault, but was recently acquitted after a judge ruled he was not targeting a specific person.

Even though the Södertörn District Court's judgment stated it “may be proven that the man exposed himself and masturbated on this occasion,” the court decided the man had not committed a crime since the sexual molestation was not directed at one or more people. In the future public masturbation might be considered disorderly conduct, but in this instance, it was okay to masturbate on the beach.

Now, let’s contrast this with the recent case up in my neck of the woods where a travelling cable repairman, experiencing extended erection time due to his habitual use of Cialis, was apprehended after masturbating while driving on a highway in his company vehicle. Seems a young girl caught a glimpse of his tally whacker and informed her mother who then dutifully reported the incident and license plate to the police. The repairman got slammed with lewd and lascivious behavior and faces jail time.

Here in the USA, unarguably we’ve come a long way since the Puritanical dark ages when even talking about sex could have landed you shackled in a stockade or even tarred and feathered. Nowadays we can shamelessly recreate at nudist facilities or, for the more brazen, partake in serendipitous sexual liaisons at a myriad of clubs and resorts unabashedly dedicated to unrestricted Hedonism. However, all these facilities are carefully cordoned off and protected from haphazard public intrusion. The cable repairman should have had his company vehicle windows polarized or been a tad more discreet. Or maybe not…

I believe people who masturbate are happier and healthier than the vast majority of scornful abstainers who forsake one of life’s most accessible and pleasurable activities. Much more than just providing a good dose of enjoyable endorphins, masturbation profoundly stimulates our nervous and endocrine systems while fortifying our bones and muscles. Most importantly, by loving ourselves emotionally and sexually, we cultivate love for others. The more connected we are to our innate sexuality, the more connected we are to each other.

Maybe it’s time we admit public masturbation to the club of acceptable civil outdoor recreational activities. Think of the numerous benefits to our society if our citizenry were free to pursue an exercise that eradicates denial, sadness, frustration, infirmity, and instead contributes to communal contentment, joy, peacefulness, gratitude, health, and infinite love.

So let’s take a tip from the Swedes…if you see a dude in his car on the highway rubbing a stiffy or a lady at the beach pampering the pussy, casually signal them a ‘thumbs up’. After all, they are investing in the commonwealth and improving our standard of living without levying taxes or adding to the national debt.

I use to live near the sea and could see the sand dunes in the distance from an upstairs room. In the 1990's on a February morning I could see a man acting suspiciously near the dunes. He took of his clothes and was naked despite the snow flurries and the temperature being a little above freezing. A member of the public approached the dunes and he went and hid behind them. Later he put his smart clothes on and disappeared. Quite bazaar behaviour from this individual.He probably is a respectable business man.
Nudists don't like to be seen as sexual perverts and exhibitionist and try to desexualise the practise. I think masturbation is ok in public if its not offending anyone and there are no children about.There should be more clubs where this is allowed for all sexualities.
Won't masturbation be dangerous when driving especially on a motorway. It could cause a huge pile up just because someone felt a bit randy.

What cute writing and an enlightening story! I do not see masturbation as dirty. It is healthy and, at worst, a rewarding expression of oursleves and our natural needs. Some men just get erect more and need to ejaculate more. Some women need to orgasm often and enjoy it too much to repress it for others. It would be a much better world if we did not need to hold on so long or hide it from others. As normal anc common as it has become now, masturbation parties and classes and social subject, this ruling is very promissing and may help the few closet masturbators that there are left.

I live in the DC/VA area. There are some parks and even establishments around here that are known but go unspoken, to be enlightened and open in this way.
During lunches, breaks, and early evenings, you can see any number of guys of all ages, young and old, casually talking and masturbating, solo and together. It's not sex but it is as beautiful as the nature that surrounds them. It is a normal, sharing part of a beautiful LGBT lifestyle here, which has become so accepted and respected as much as the hetero lifestyle.
For more and more, it is a daily routine that is as important as their biking, running, or going to the gym. I see a growing number of hetero guys there willing to open their fly, along with their conciosness and start wanking. I know because some are now my friends. It is always a bonding experience whenever a heterosexual puts aside their reservations and biggotry and masturbates alongside a gay person. They discover they are more like them than they thought and become good friends and masturbation buddies. Such open, public masturbation helps so much in this way.
I've seen old men with young men both giving and receiving but never have I seen a "dirty old man" there with the subversive, bad motives that kind encompasses.

It's just too close for me to post until I have thought about it a lot more, but I will do so, about Nola, when I have got my thoughts together enough to cut down a part of my book into postabile form. In the meantime, all I want to say is, Sweden leads the world! 'Go Sversich'. (I hope I got that right, if not I welcome correction)

I was working in IT at Chyrsler Motor Co in Adelaide, when we were joined by Nola, by appearance an ANU (National Uni) 'blue stocking' - first class honours, very high quality tweed suits, no makeup, wool stockings, the works. Nola and I were in a small room together working on an on-line purchasing system. (Incidentally I want to state once-and-for-all, I thought I was good, but she was brilliant). One hot Friday, maybe 2pm, we had done with one task and it was too late to start another, so I said "I'm going to the beach before I go home" Nola said "That sounds like a good idea, but I don't have any bathers", "Where I am going you don't need them" and she said "That sounds like my sort of beach, let's go". Gobsmarcked isn't a good enough word for how I felt, but we headed to Maslins beach, the first legal nude beach in SA, and for what happened next you'll have to read the book, but if I didn't know already, that day I learned 'don't judge a book by its cover'. Go Sveridge (I might have got it right this time, maybe).